The administration has now begun the process to attach their property and stop their bank transactions, in a major "paradigm shift" in the policy so as to hit their source of funding, District Magistrate Brajesh Narain Singh told PTI Sunday.

For many years, mafia, drug dealers and crimes dominated the police files in the state. But in less than a year, the police showed no mercy in eliminating these hooligans and liberate Uttar Pradesh from the dark world of crimes.

According to official data released by Uttar Pradesh police, there were 1144 encounters from March 20, 2017, to January 31, 2018, in the state, in which 34 criminals were killed and 2744 were arrested.